Meaning not yet researched.
Ciara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 155 in 2025. Its best rank was #149 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #149 in 2005; #1,408 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ciara in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,408 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #149.
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Ciara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 155 girls in 2025. Peak: #149 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 2,325 (2005).
In 2025, 155 US girls were named Ciara, making it the 1,408th most common girls’ name of the year, down 50 places from #1,358 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 168 girls named Ciara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #149, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,325. For comparison, it was #757 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ciara in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 34,883 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 13,068 babies named Ciara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,120 US girls were named Ciara; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 324. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,369 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ciara ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #816 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kiara (57,289 babies since 1880), Cara (53,367 babies since 1880), Keira (33,843 babies since 1880) and Kiera (21,870 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Cyra, Ceirra and Ceaira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Irish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cyra (931), Ceirra (573), Ceaira (562), Ziara (534), Ceira (354), Cearra (337), Siarah (298), Cyara (266), Ciarah (260), Zira (186), Ciaira (171), Cyera (149), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ciara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 11 | #816 | #932 |
| Florida | 18 | #878 | #712 |
| Michigan | 8 | #878 | #1,037 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #907 | #375 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,011 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,039 | #716 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,070 | #631 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,212 | #589 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,243 | #667 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,418 | #854 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,438 | #536 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,503 | #915 |
| California | 12 | #1,764 | #696 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,408 | — | — |
| 2024 | 168 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 2022 | 193 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2021 | 215 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 2019 | 204 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 2018 | 259 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2017 | 244 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2016 | 324 | #869 | — | — |
| 2015 | 372 | #757 | — | — |
| 2014 | 424 | #672 | — | — |
| 2013 | 437 | #647 | — | — |
| 2012 | 475 | #603 | — | — |
| 2011 | 556 | #524 | — | — |
| 2010 | 701 | #439 | — | — |
| 2009 | 888 | #364 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,041 | #322 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,364 | #257 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,609 | #213 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,325 | #149 | — | — |
| 2004 | 980 | #322 | — | — |
| 2003 | 791 | #383 | — | — |
| 2002 | 904 | #335 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,005 | #315 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,139 | #282 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,219 | #256 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,232 | #250 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,401 | #211 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,429 | #205 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,586 | #187 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,401 | #208 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,436 | #205 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,370 | #210 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,050 | #266 | — | — |
| 1990 | 944 | #294 | — | — |
| 1989 | 884 | #295 | 7 | #6,335 |
| 1988 | 703 | #354 | — | — |
| 1987 | 770 | #315 | — | — |
| 1986 | 733 | #330 | — | — |
| 1985 | 549 | #411 | — | — |
| 1984 | 235 | #707 | — | — |
| 1983 | 175 | #870 | — | — |
| 1982 | 179 | #860 | — | — |
| 1981 | 122 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1980 | 95 | #1,330 | — | — |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,496 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).